[8293] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: EDGAR and A-130
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (hes@unity.ncsu.edu)
Fri Nov 12 21:35:25 1993
From: hes@unity.ncsu.edu
To: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1993 21:34:51 -0500 (EST)
Cc: fidelman@civicnet.org, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <199311130149.AA06376@world.std.com> from "Barry Shein" at Nov 12, 93 08:49:09 pm
Barry Shein wrote:
>The other day I did a sort of on-line interview with PUBLIB, a public
>library librarians' mailing list. I also mentioned that trained
>professionals will be sorely in demand shortly to help manage this
>internet information explosion. The situation right now is merely
>waiting until people notice their chins getting wet.
>
>A good warning sign is the folks posting to various lists about how
>lost they are trying to find anything in so-called information
>discovery tools and crying for help. Cute hacks only go so far, this
>stuff is beginning to require professional intervention by trained
>information specialists. I envy many of them their future.
If they are willing to take advantage of these needs and
opportunities.
I have worked closely with librarians - and while there are many of
all ages who are chomping at the bit, and who want to work on the
wonderful problems of information discovery, cataloging the shifting
sands of the network, and guiding the users through a technology maze
(all in cooperation with the User Services professionals of the computer
centers and networks) - there are all too many who are mired in the
concepts and practices which remained essentially unchanged from the
great library at Alexandria until the Internet.
Even the alert and ready ones will need the encouragement and support
of the networking organizations. And we will benefit even more by
having these professionals helping our network users be productive.
So go ahead and take a librarian to lunch - nurture this symbiosis -
you'll be happy you did.
--henry schaffer
